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Ring-ditch

Monadreela, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Monadreela, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Monadreela
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53100, -7.85963
SMR number
TS061-161----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On an E-facing slope on a roughly E-W orientated ridge, excavated in advance of construction of the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road South. Remains of a shallow, circular area (diam. 5.7m) defined by fosse (Wth 0.3m; D 0.08-0.23m) variously V-shaped or steep-sided with a flat base. The upper portion of the monument appears to have been removed as a result of agricultural activity. No evidence of habition or burial, though the latter may have been removed with the upper portion of the monument. (Hughes and O'Flanagan 2003, 11-12, 33). A fulacht fia (TS061-169----) was excavated c. 50m to the E and a number of pits and post-holes (TS061-170----), including one containing Bronze Age pottery, were excavated within an area c. 50 to S and SE.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

O'Flanagan, N. 2006 Site 7, Monadreela: Ring-ditch/fulacta fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 472. Bray. Wordwell.

Hughes, J. and O'Flanagan, N. 2003 N8 Cashel Bypass & N74 Link Road: phase 2 archaeological investigations. Site No. 7. Licence No. 03E0300. Unpublished archaeological excavation report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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